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February 2019
Sugata Ray – U of Alabama – Brown Bag Series
Hedge Fund Hold’em We find that hedge fund managers who do well in poker tournaments have significantly better fund performance. This effect is stronger for tournaments with more entrants, larger buy-ins, larger cash prizes and for managers who win multiple tournaments, suggesting poker skills are correlated with fund management skills.…
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Kristoph Kleiner – Indiana – Brown Bag Series
Friends with Bankruptcy Protection Benefits We evaluate whether social networks limit the effectiveness of targeted debt relief programs. In our setting, individuals learn about the likelihood of debt relief from the recent experiences of workplace peers who file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. While peers granted bankruptcy are able to discharge…
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Pedro Matos – Darden – Brown Bag Series
“Responsible Institutional Investing Around the World” Rajna Gibson (U Geneva), Philipp Krueger (U Geneva), Pedro Matos, and Tom Steffen (U Geneva) ABSTRACT We explore a novel survey on responsible investing by institutional investors around the world and match it to archival data on equity portfolio holdings. We study what factors…
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Felipe Schwartzman – Richmond Fed – Brown Bag Series
The Persistent Employment Effects of the 2006-09 U.S. Housing Wealth Collapse We show that the housing wealth collapse of 2006-09 had a persistent impact on employment across counties in the US. In particular, localities that had a larger loss in housing net-worth during that period had more depressed employment as…
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Christoph Herpfer – Emory – Brown Bag Series
Information Intermediaries: How Commercial Bankers Facilitate Strategic Alliances Marc Frattaroli | Christoph Herpfer July 4, 2019 Abstract We investigate how bankers use information from lending relationships to help borrowers combine resources in strategic alliances. Firms that have borrowed from the same banker or share an indirect connection through a network…
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Rodney Sullivan – Darden – Brown Bag Series
Hedge Fund Alpha, Cycle or Sunset? Rodney N. Sullivan, CFA, CAIA Abstract The hedge fund industry has grown from $200 billion in assets under management at the turn of the millennium to now over $3 trillion. Many reports criticize hedge funds for destroying investor capital particularly since the 2008 global…
Find out more »Michael Farrell – Darden – Brown Bag Series
Read Between the Filings Daily Mutual Fund Holdings and Liquidity Provision Michael Farrell August 2018 ABSTRACT Many questions about mutual fund trading require daily holdings, yet mutual funds are only required to report quarterly holdings. I model intraquarter trading and use the genetic algorithm to estimate the trade pattern that…
Find out more »Ting Xu – Darden – Brown Bag Series
International Legal Institutions and the Globalization of Innovation Bo Bian, Jean-Marie Meier, and Ting Xu October 11, 2019 Abstract We study how innovation goes global in response to the establishment of strong international legal institutions that reduce cross-border contracting frictions. We construct novel measures of the globalization of innovation at…
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Bob Bruner – Darden – Brown Bag Series
"Financial Crises: Research, Cases, and Courses"
Find out more »Frank Warnock – Darden – Brown Bag Series
The Natural Level of Capital Flows John D. Burger Sellinger School of Business, Loyola University Maryland Francis E. Warnock Darden Business School, University of Virginia NBER Veronica Cacdac Warnock Darden Business School, University of Virginia This Draft: November 2019 update (in progress) of NBER Working Paper 26184 Abstract We put…
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